About P&P
Founded in 1952, the Past and Present Society runs a journal, Past and Present, has its own book series, sponsors conferences, and appoints up to four postdoctoral fellows every year.
Past and Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal’s contents reflect the Society’s
belief that history should be accessible and interesting to a wide range of readers, and its articles are intended to appeal to non-specialists as well as to experts. Since its inception in 1952, the mark of a P&P article was that it should be a properly researched study which showed an awareness of the wider implications of that research. Its remit is worldwide, and across all time periods.
Blog
How does it feel to survive an earthquake (and why does it matter)?
By Josh Allen - November 5, 2024 (0 comments)
Dr. Dan Haines (University College London) For Jean Kingdon-Ward, the night of 15 August 1950 should have been ordinary. She and her husband Francis, a well known British botanist, were…
Read More >>2024's Supplement "Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World" Published
By Josh Allen - November 4, 2024 (0 comments)
by the Past & Present editorial team Edited by Prof. Renaud Morieux (Pembroke, University of Cambridge) and Jeppe Mulich (City, University of London) 2024’s Past & Present supplement “Ordering the…
Read More >>Reflections Upon Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union c.1700-1945
By Josh Allen - September 17, 2024 (0 comments)
by Dr. Sarah Moxey (Open University) Over the last decade or so contemporary Scottish politics has been a dominant topic on the news agenda, however, Scottish political history has not…
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